---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001050441-25-000017"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EGBN"
cik: "0001050441"
company_name: "EAGLE BANCORP INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T23:12:57.923041+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Executive Chair Norm Pozez not standing for re-election; Susan Riel becomes Chair

## Summary
- Norm Pozez will not stand for re-election as director at 2025 Annual Meeting; no disagreement with the company.
- Susan Riel (President & CEO) assumes the role of Chair of the Board.
- Eric Newell (CFO) and Ryan Riel promoted to Senior Executive Vice President.
- Performance shares (32,646 PSUs and 21,764 RSUs) will continue vesting per original schedule.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001050441-25-000017
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EGBN
- cik: 0001050441
- company_name: EAGLE BANCORP INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050441/000105044125000017/0001050441-25-000017-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050441/000105044125000017/gnw-20250211.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001050441-25-000017
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001050441-25-000017.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001050441-25-000017.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Susan Riel changed role as Chair of the Board at EAGLE BANCORP INC.
  - Action: assumed the role of Chair
  - Role: Chair of the Board
  source text: The title of Chair of the Board of Directors succeeded to Ms. Susan Riel, a director and the current President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, who has assumed the role of Chair, Chief Executive Officer and President.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050441/000105044125000017/0001050441-25-000017-index.htm
- Executive change
  Eric Newell changed role as Senior Executive Vice President at EAGLE BANCORP INC.
  - Action: promoted to Senior Executive Vice President
  - Role: Senior Executive Vice President
  source text: The Company also announced that Eric Newell, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, and Ryan Riel, Executive Vice President of the Company, were promoted to Senior Executive Vice President.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050441/000105044125000017/0001050441-25-000017-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ryan Riel changed role as Senior Executive Vice President at EAGLE BANCORP INC.
  - Action: promoted to Senior Executive Vice President
  - Role: Senior Executive Vice President
  source text: The Company also announced that Eric Newell, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, and Ryan Riel, Executive Vice President of the Company, were promoted to Senior Executive Vice President.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050441/000105044125000017/0001050441-25-000017-index.htm
- Executive change
  Norm Pozez departed as Executive Chair at EAGLE BANCORP INC.
  - Action: will not stand for re-election
  - Role: Executive Chair
  source text: On February 5, 2025, Norm Pozez, Executive Chair, notified the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Eagle Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) that he will not stand for re-election as a director of the Company at the end of his term, which expires at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1050441/000105044125000017/0001050441-25-000017-index.htm

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